The qcom emac driver experiences significant packet loss (through frame check sequence errors) if flow control is not enabled and the phy is not configured to allow pause frames to pass through it. Therefore, we need to enable flow control and force the phy to pass pause frames.
Timur Tabi (2): net: qcom/emac: configure the external phy to allow pause frames [v2] net: qcom/emac: enable flow control if requested drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/emac/emac-mac.c | 15 +++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) -- Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies, Inc. as an affiliate of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project.